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Inspired by their reading of Darwin’s Origins of the Species, the students in Dr. John Nieto’s two sections of Senior Natural Science organized a somewhat spontaneous trip this past weekend to the La Brea Tar Pits — a world-famous fossil-excavation site in the Hancock Park portion of in Los Angeles. There they examined the preserved remains of woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and other Ice Age creatures.

“We wanted to see the fossil progressions,” one student explained. “The tar pits are not only a museum, but also an ongoing urban excavation site. It was amazing to see paleontologists digging in the middle of L.A.!”

La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017
  • La Brea Tar Pits Trip 2017